Views Preview: Covering gay pride at Fort Leonard Wood

On Monday, the first-ever gay pride event was held on post at Fort Leonard Wood. Command Sgt. Major Teresa King spoke at a luncheon about her journey coming out and living openly as a gay soldier in the U.S. Army.

Some would say that this is news. It's not that long ago that such an event on an military post would have been illegal. Others say there are diversity events held all the time celebrating one group or another, and it deserved no more coverage than those do.

The publisher of the Pulaski County Daily News says he went to the event Monday and plans to write a story about it. But, last week, went on the record saying he didn't find it to be worthy of significant coverage -- via his Facebook page.

The Associated Press is the latest to announce it will use robots to write certain data-driven stories. The wire service will automate the reporting of quarterly earnings stories on its business wires.

AP Managing Editor Lou Ferrera said he'd rather his reporters spend their time to crunching numbers, he'd rather they devote themselves making the numbers more meaningful to readers.

A Florida judge threw out George Zimmerman's libel suit against NBC on Monday. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Judge Debra S. Nelson said there was no clear evidence anyone at NBC knew the information it published was false at the time or that it recklessly disregarded the truth of the statements.

Congratulations! If you're on Facebook, chances are you can add "lab rat" to the many titles you already hold. That's because we found out the social network - along with researchers from Cornell University and University of California-San Francisco - conducted a scientific experiment on users' moods based on manipulated posts in their news feeds.

In television news, affiliates share stories via feeds on an hourly basis. We're reminded of it every time Conan O'Brien runs another segment with news anchors all reading the same script -- never changing a word. But, most of the time, those anchors toss to the exact same recorded package, airing it as it was delivered to them by the network. What happens when an affiliate station takes the work of a reporter in one market and repackages it as their own? Is it plagiarism or standard operating procedure?